Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian marine says that his commander, whom he describes as an incompentent drunkard, ordered his unit to march 20 km and attack a Russian-held position, after which all but three of his men were killed. He's now considering a suicide mission to kill his commanders. ⬇️

2/ The man describes himself as a former Wagner Group fighter now serving with the 61st Separate Marine Brigade (military unit 38643). He says that he was fighting with the 2nd assault company near the village of Malynivka, about 14 km east of Pokrovsk.

3/ He is serving under a commander with the call sign 'Omut' ['Whirlpool'], of whom he says: "He's a total drunk. Before [the mission], there was no training, no preparation, no basic instruction. How, what, and why? He was just messing around..."

4/ "We loaded up at night and left. That was the first mistake the command made. The second was when we arrived, they unloaded us, and we walked more than 20 kilometers on foot, with backpacks, with everything we could carry.

5/ "Half of the people just threw away their water and food because they didn't have the strength to walk. We arrived there when we were ordered to advance, and they told me there was an enemy there. In fact, it was our men—the 132nd Brigade."

6/ A subsequent mission went even more disastrously when the men were ordered to advance across an open field strewn with mines. "I realised right away that something was wrong, because when the mortar started firing, I found corpses there. I even have a video of those corpses."

7/ "And where we were hiding from the artillery, everything was just destroyed. And when I jumped in there, I realized that here, that they had just thrown us to the wolves, there are fields all around, there's nowhere to go..."

8/ Within fifteen minutes, nearly all of the assault company had been wiped out by Ukrainian artillery and a tank:

"It wasn't even fifteen minutes later. I knew it was over. The tank started firing, and that was it. One guy just came running—here, Michael, from my group, a guy."

9/ "He wouldn't let me lie. He's in the hospital now, I don't know, in Donetsk, I think, somewhere. He came running and said, 'Bro, get out, the commander—200 [dead]' These guys—all 200. All 200. Just like that. Just three of us left.

10/ "All the guys stayed in the plantation too, they didn't even make it 4.5 kilometers. They just all stayed there, that's all.

11/ "Then a day or two passed, I sat it out, gathered my strength, got some water from the stinking lake, and didn't get caught up in this stupid, just dumb, thing anymore.

12/ "And all the guys who are going, I see, just 2,000 young guys going, they don't even understand where they're going. It's not worth the money."

13/ After he and the other two survivors made it back alive to their positions, he complained to the military prosecutor's office. His commander retaliated by falsely declaring him to be a deserter, stopping his pay – a common way of punishing perceived misconduct.

14/ The soldier was tied to a tree for two days to be 'sacrificed to Baba Yaga', as the Russians describe it.

"Two days in the rain, tied up, my legs, my hands tied, under shelling, with drones flying. It's all that simple. For two days I was so terrified."

15/ "I wouldn't wish this on even my worst enemy. After two days, I gave in. Not only that, I also had a head wound. But when I got out, they gave me a choice: either way, you'll be up front with the guy delivering food [to the front line]."

16/ This, he says, is a suicide mission: "I understand what this means, that no one has ever made it there alive where they are sending me."

17/ Now he is considering what to do – whether to comply with his orders or try to kill his commanders, who he says are drunks and drug addicts without combat experience, who don't listen to anything:

"Either just go there, wipe them all out. [Or] go to the guys at the front..."

18/ "I have five magazines and 46 grenades. There are tripwires around me, but no one will come near. It will last a long time. There's no point to all this. But I don't want any more deaths. Enough is enough."

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